Life Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Inferences and Assumptions

Two important aspects of reasoning are the usage of inferences and assumptions. An inference is a conclusion that is drawn (or made) from a combination of many factors. Many inferences -- or conclusions -- are drawn from underlying assumptions. Underlying assumptions are facts that are taken for granted, or presuppositions. If an underlying assumption is invalid or incorrect, then, by necessity, the inferences one makes are skewed, and do not reflect the reality of the matter at hand. Many people -- including myself -- make inferences based on underlying assumptions. It is a normal, healthy aspect of everyday decision-making. However, when one's ...

Higher education has been a subject under a lot of discussion by people regarding its worthiness. There are questions on whether higher education is worth the price. They say that higher education enable students to graduate and get jobs with high salaries (Graff & Birkenstein, 2009). I say that it is true and this is evidenced by the fact that many high-paying jobs require high levels of education. People with high-paying jobs include doctors, engineers, surgeons, radiologists, lawyers, pilots, and pharmacists. These jobs require acquiring a high level of education. I think that higher education is worth the price because the amount of ...

Finding a person who will do anything and face every danger in the name of love is very hard. ‘The Heartless Lover’ and ‘The Dedicated Lover’ stories are very insightful when it comes to this. The compassion and distinction that is carried out on this paper focuses on the notion of figurative differences, that is, between The Heartless Lover and The Dedicated Lover in the two stories. They explore the circumstances when love is tried and how fatal it sometimes turns out to be from the storyline.

In the two stories, the topic of love is exploited insightfully in a ...

1 The short story A&P, by John Updike is in consideration for the essay. The story unfolds in a lazy Thursday afternoon, at a departmental store by the same name. Three young girls, in differently colored two-pieces, visit the store, and cause quite a small turbulence in the lives of the store workers. In particular, the narrator, Sammy causes a whole ruckus in the store, for something that isn’t worth much, in the first place. Or maybe he breaks free of the shackles binding him. The actions of Sammy can be interpreted both ways, and the further discussion of the story ...

Self identity stems from the notion of emancipating the calls of the real person is portrayed. A healthy self-identity, in my own perspective, calls for identifying the issues that affect a person. It relates to how one can be sincere and honest with himself in line with the abilities that he possesses. It also touches on the identification of the weaknesses that one may have, and working on them to be a better person. A healthy self identity gives one room to initiate discipline and belief in his endeavors, hence ensuring that one does not fall behind the peer cocoon.

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The short passage is evidence as to the suffering and agony that the monster, Frankenstein, experienced as a result of his loneliness and the grotesque sight that he was taken to be. Filled with anger and indignation that surged out of his painful quest for companionship, Frankenstein sought to wage vengeance on his creator, Victor Frankenstein, and make his life as painful as his own (Cobley, p 33). Surrendering to his painful fate, that of a monster, Frankenstein decides to adopt an evil nature which he was unwillingly chosen and crated for.

The theme of monstrosity is dominantly evidenced in this passage. ...

The nature versus nurture debate has been raging for decades and even today, it still elicits mixed reactions from different people. This concept presents the cosmic conflict between ethics and environmental surroundings and influences as the essential aspects that govern and determine a person’s behavioral conduct. One side proposes that at birth, the brain is a clean slate that is open to a great deal of influences, and it is these surrounding influences that govern a person’s behavioral traits. The contrasting side proposes that a person’s behavioral capabilities are encoded in the person’s DNA. This person is limited to a given ...

The book “Fun Home” which has a subtitle “A Family Tragicomic” represented a graphic memoir that was written by Alison Bechdel in 2006. In this book, the author makes an account of her childhood and the memories she had while growing up in the small town of Pennsylvania. The focus of her story revolved on the complicated relationship she carried throughout her lifetime with her father. The common themes of the book of revolves around gender roles, sexual orientation, dysfunctional life with the family, suicidal tendencies and the function of literature in appreciating the relationship with your own family. ...

Introduction

The work,”The Mortal Immortal”, views women as submissive and helpless, and need to constantly rely on others before achieving satisfaction during the work’s specific era (The Author Of Frankenstein 2). As quoted from the work: “I was then very young--very poor--and very much. in love. I had been for about a year the pupil of Cornelius, though I was absent when this accident took place. On my return, my friends implored me not to return to the alchymist's abode. I trembled as I listened to the dire tale they told; I required no second warning; ...

Dubliners is a novel in the loosest of senses, much in the same way that The Martian Chronicles is a novel. Both books contain vignettes that can stand alone as separate short stories, although they contain characters and a sort of story arc that holds the whole entity together. One of the main elements that holds the story together is the plight of the poor in Dublin; despite the fact that most of the characters are poor, the truth of their poverty comes to the reader indirectly, through such details as the fact that Lenehan has not eaten all day, while he ...

Part I

While Child Protective Services might find the dance that unfolds in Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” to be a bit unsightly, it is clearly an event that the little boy enjoys, finding it a moment of bonding with his father. The fact that the boy’s “mother’s countenance/Could not unfrown itself”(Roethke 7-8) suggests that she disapproves of the father drinking. Indeed, the father has had more than a couple of shots, as the mere smell of it on his father’s breath turns the boy dizzy. This use of alcohol may well be just a form of solace after a long ...

We discussed post-colonial theory in terms of these categories: history, language, education, place, body. Discuss the novel as it speaks to at least three of these categories. 
In the Heart of the Country is a classic novel which demonstrates the relationship between whites and blacks in South Africa in the apartheid era. The principal topic which is very clear in this book is the history of the place where black South Africans are emarginated and almost eradicated by policies of resettlement applied by their white masters. In fact the main character in the book, Magda nurses a bitter hatred towards ...

You Can’t Take It With You by George Kaufman and Moses Hart is a comedic play that shows how people have shallow understanding of life and how these people hold primitive thoughts about the actuality of life. It is also a play that seeks to make take life as it is and enjoy it when they still can. The play offers descriptive and episodic events inform of dialogue. While the story triggers philosophical thoughts about life and human existence, the characters in the play engages in happiness madness citing that they do so while they still can because once they ...

Introduction

Obesity has been on the rise in America and the rest of the world. The past decade has witnessed amazing rise in the cases of obesity. This has been blamed on many causes by varied writers. In this write up much focus is given on the article: Stuck on the Couch by Sanjay Gupta Don’t Eat the Flan by Greg Critser Supersize Me and Its Time to Stop Blaming Fat People for Their Size - by Alison Motluk

Gupta‘s reasons at to why as human beings we don’t exercise are not convincing enough. I believe that ...

Introduction

Development is defined as the act of adaptation while personality development basically refers to the mental, emotional, psychological, temperamental and behavioral growth that one acquires (Schulz and Heckhausen, 1996). Also, personality development can be described as the averagely constant and stable features and characteristics a person bears with time (Alea, Diehl and Bluck, 2004). Personality development usually is an attribute associated with age and experience.

Success can be defined as the achievement or realization of desired goals or objectives hoped for. On the other hand, successful ageing is basically the eminent and prosperous growth in personality, self-concept and values acquired ...

Self-reliance

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something, which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.” (Emerson) (Nina et al, 1094)
In this quote, Emerson urges people to remain themselves at all times. He insists on people obeying their natural instincts, trusting in their intrinsic abilities and doing the things that they can do best. He believes that by so doing everyone will be able to rely in him/herself.
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Invisible Life: A Book Review

The story revolves around Raymond Winston Tyler Jr., a lawyer from Alabama. He is popular and had a perfect life. He dated Sela, the only black popular cheerleader in the campus. One day, he met the star footballer in the campus – Kelvin Ellis who is adventurous. He admitted to Raymond that he is bisexual. One kiss and further intimacy changes it all for Raymond. During his struggles, his friends JJ and Kyle were beside him. Another man popped in Raymond’s life – Quinn Mathis whom he had sexual and indoor relation. As time goes, Raymond discovered that Quinn was already married ...

Khalid Husseini an Afghan national has written a story named “The Kite Runner”. The writer himself belongs to the area from where the story erupts. In this story, the writer has very beautifully portrayed the various images of life.

Thesis statement:

The three stages in the life of a young boy have shown how bravely he faced all the hard situations in his life. Rising from a small area, and going up and then coming back to his roots, is the main theme of this story. The ethnic problems engulfed the happiness of a whole country.

Literature review:

This story is very deeply written by the writer. ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the reflections drawn upon the readings of the novel ‘Passion’ written in 1987 by Jeanette Winterson. Jeanette Winterson has been widely acknowledged within the borders of the literary community as one of the writers who succeed in bonding their stories closely to mystery and passion, somewhere between magic and reality. This paper will present you with the main idea of Passion and will prove that people’s lives are conquered by Passion in such a way that Passion can neither be considered exclusively benefactoring nor destructive. It depends on the ...

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot by the Irish writer Samuel Becket is a powerful play attesting to the inevitable suffering inherent in human existence. The play depicts this agony even more poignantly by the fact that it is devoid of a well-organized plot and a conventional setting: “A country road. A tree” (Act 1). This is all the setting there is. .Devoid of these familiar elements, the audience or reader has no choice but to face one of the most fundamental elements of the play: an endless wait. As the play opens, the audience or reader meets Estragon, or rather Gogo, who is struggling ...

Everybody has something innate that is endowed upon a person without compensation and voluntarily. According to Richard and David, every person is endowed with a calling that help them to fulfill a unique purpose in this world. For me, there are various gifts that rejuvenate my determination and shape up means to achieve my goals in future. Such gifts include a gift of singing, a gift of storytelling and a gift of cooking. I realized that storytelling is my gift when my cousins and my neighbor’s kids started to beg me to tell them bed time stories especially about adventures. Whenever, I am telling ...

Things Fall Apart was written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe and was published in 1958. The title foreshadows the tragedy in the novel. Achebe borrows the title from W B Yeats’ poem The Second Coming: ‘Things fall apart and the center cannot hold’. The phrase things fall apart is used to show the images of more general chaos that follows in the novel. The second phrase is a kind of declaration that “the centre cannot hold,” It is relevant to Achebe’s novel as the traditional structure of the society is challenged by the coming of missionaries and the white ...

Introduction

Heritage planning primarily involves the development, preservation, and restoration of heritage sites. Heritage sites come in different forms and one of which is the historic living city. Essentially, the historic living city pertains to towns or cities that grow alongside the development of urban spaces. It contributes or influences development in various disciplines such as heritage planning and architecture among others, and components or segments of human life be it cultural, economic, social, and political life (Bandarin & van Oers, 2012; Serageldin, Shluger, & Martin-Brown, 2001; Weyeneth, 2000). Historic living cities also bear specific qualities and characteristics, which is why defining ...

Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, published in 1969, is an autobiographical look into the coming-of-age years of the African-American author. Throughout the novel, Angelou’s discusses themes such as racism and segregation that she experienced, simply for being African American. She also discusses experiencing displacement throughout this period in her life, living in seven different homes in a relatively short period of time. There is also an overwhelming theme that speaks to Angelou’s resistance to racism; all of these culminated to form Angelou’s social identity. She covers many different events that helped shape ...

Introduction

The existence of classes in the society has a long history dating back to the 19th century in the Western Europe after the industrial revolution (Abrutyn, 2013). As such, because of the industrial revolution, classes emerged. In this regard, the classes that emerged comprised of those of the rich and those people who worked for them. However, since then different forms of stratification emerged in the society. Examples of such stratifications or classes are the ones based on gender, race, age, and religion (Bartos & Wehr, 2002). Consequently, various arguments exist concerning these new forms of stratification with some people viewing ...

In “The Welcome Table,” walker introduces the readers to racial and sexist themes in the modern society. Walker examines the inter-racial conflicts from a moral point of view to emphasize the need to curb the racial issues in the modern society. The plot and literary forms used in the story help the author to develop the theme in the story and build it to a clear understanding by the readers. Colorful words and prose narrations also help the author to develop a theme and increase the understanding of readers. The author demonstrates that the racial discrimination does not have a place in the ...

In A Doll House, Henrik Ibsen writes about a topic that seems so vital to him, this is the social life and duties of persons in society. This time round he chooses to use the institution of marriage and a home. Ibsen intended that the reader sees the position of a woman in this society as she seems caged in the whole institution of marriage. This is seen through the relationship that exists between Nora Helmer and her beloved husband Torvald Helmer and to some extent Nora’s father. In fact all the life that Norah lives, she conforms to societal norms ...

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Introduction
Araby is one of the most fascinating works by James Joyce. It is about a young lad who narrates the story and who leads a blithe life in a Dublin surrounding. The boy falls in love with a friend’s sister and watches her steps every morning. Hen the boy and the girl finally spoke, she mentions about a foreign bazaar right in town. The speaker later became obsessed with the plan of buying the girl presents from the bazaar.
One major theme in the Araby is disappointment. The narrator is eventually faced with realism when he visits Araby and finds ...

Literature

In Chapter 3, George, in Ninety Percent of Everything, writes about the life of seafarers from the 1900s to the present. In bringing to life the world of the seafarers of the 1900s, George writes that there was so much at stake before the advent of technology. Who would have thought that life at sea could have been so tough, when all people do, is talk about the adventure and pleasure of travel that is associated with it. This, she says, is far from true. Carrying cargo from one corner of the earth to the other involved a lot of ...

While driving with lot stoner, the narrator is more attentive and responsive to lot stoner. This is most probable as he is juvenile and has not seen much of what there is to experience in life. His worries then are minimal; those of what would happen to him when the parents found out that he quit school. However, when riding with the truck driver, he has more issues to get him worried. This includes his wife and the recently impregnated Carline. That shows by how much the narrator has matured between the two rides.
The narrator is loving ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Short fictions have various elements such as plot, theme, imagery, dialogues, setting and characters, each used in a specific way to express the views of the author, about the society in which he/she or the characters of their story is a part of. Using these elements an author drives home his/her point of view on worldly affairs. This essay is an attempt to explore the theme of loneliness and love, as portrayed in William Faulkner’s most anthologized short story ‘A Rose for Emily’.
‘A Rose for Emily’ is the most famous, at the same time, most shocking of the ...

Benjamin Franklin is one of greatest Americans who played very significant role in making of modern United States of America. Benjamin was one of brightest brains of America and is known as first American. Benjamin Franklin was a successful politician, author, diplomat, civic activist, scientist and a statesman. This paper intends to discuss life of Benjamin Franklin and further delves into his autobiography in order to know several other related aspects of his life.
As per the information, provided in his biography, Benjamin was born in a very humble family on 17th January, 1706 in Boston. Benjamin was eighth son of ...

Mounted on the one hundred dollar bill and known for his many contributions and inventions to society, Benjamin Franklin is known as velour inspiration and wisdom. However, under this scenario, Franklin is an arrogant, self-conceited narcissist who only accomplished exceptional tasks, such as inventing the stove in 1742 not to better society, but simply to appease himself. Such evidence is portrayed in his autobiography, which Franklin named The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. In this said autobiography are numerous instances where Franklin’s arrogance and hypocrisy is blatantly obvious. Much of these egotistical instances are apparent using diction, syntax, mood, ...

Introduction

Man is no match to the extreme cold, especially when he travels alone. His skills on how to build a fire are not enough to assure his survival against the harsh weather. It takes more than skills and fitness to conquer the challenges of life. In the succeeding paragraphs, the experiences of the protagonist in To Build a Fire are discussed. Jack London, through this story, is emphasizing the qualities that a man should have to survive the difficulties he encounters in life. His use of the extreme cold as the setting and only the man and the dog as the characters ...

Background and Setting

“Trifles” is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. Glaspell brought base for her play from a real murder story of a former John Hossack, the case that she had covered when she was a journalist with Des Moines Daily News Paper. In that case, the victim’s wife, Mrs. Margaret, was suspected as a murderer. Based on this story, she built a story for her one-act play, “Trifles.” The action of the play revolves around a murder of a farmer Mr. John Wright. Someone put him to death by strangling him by a rope. His wife was sleeping next to him when he was murdered, ...

Introduction

Background of poet
Thomas Stearns Elion was an American-British scholar. The man was a jack of all trades with influences as an essayist, publisher, social and literary critic, playwriting and a major poet of the twentieth century. His work has been widely acclaimed with the pinnacle being the Nobel Prize in Literature, an accolade that was bestowed upon him in 1948 in recognition of his pioneer and outstanding contribution and influence on the present-day poetry. Other pieces of work written by the poet include the Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, The Hollow Men and Four Quartets among others. The ...

Authorship: Murasaki Shikibu’s classic Japanese novel “The Tale of Genji” is in three parts. The first two parts revolve around the rise, fall and death of Genji, the primary hero of the novel. The last part revolves around the early years of Genji’s two prominent descendants. All three parts are self-contained, and each part seems like it is a separate novel on its own. Theme(s): Although love, lust, and the interaction of male and female characters is a central theme of Shikibu’s novel, particularly Genji’s love life, the different themes of affection, family bonds, filial ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a close reading of a specific paragraph from the short story by Katherine Mansfield ‘The Woman at the store’. The paragraph which has been chosen to be presented in this essay is the one of the first meeting of the three men with the Woman, the main female figure and protagonist of this short story. It is a paragraph which describes the situation of confronting each other. The essay is structured in three steps. Each step emphasizes and highlights one particular aspect of the essay. The first step is the writing of ...

Valuable insight into the main teachings of Atenism is provided by the Great Hymn and all of foremost principles of Atenism have been outlined in it. Moreover, the differences between the philosophy of King Akhenaten, the supposed composer of this Hymn, and the primary Egyptian religion that existed before his reign have been further outlined in the lyrical verses of the Hymn.
In the very first couple of lines, the sun is portrayed as a life giver who enforces justice by journeying across the sky. The New Solar Theology also shared this belief that life on earth exists because ...

Philosophy

The Divine Command Theory purports that a particular act becomes either moral or not (immoral) on no other basis other than God has commanded that it be done or forbids us from doing that particular act. According to this theory, an action is only made wrong by the fact that God Himself prohibits it’s doing. As seen in the definition, whatever it is that God commands automatically becomes the basic standard of morality, and there exist no other moral values other than what God prescribes for man.
The belief that there is no limit whatsoever as to what ...

Part 1 – Explication:

O: Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
I: Mark here means “See” or “Look at”. In this line, the poet brings attention of the reader to an insignificant flea. He relates the small size of the flea to the thing that his beloved has denied him, without knowing that the thing she has denied to him is very little.

O: It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,

And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
I: He tells that the flea sucked, after sucking his blood, is now sucking hers. He is strangely ...

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Political repression is a theme that transverses across the two novels including Chinua’s Things Fall Apart and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Though the political repression is caused by different players in the two accounts, the reaction of the main characters in the two novels to the political oppression is both similar and distinct in several ways. The similarities in the response of the two main characters; Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart and Marjane in Persepolis can be attributed to the resemblance in the political regimes affecting them. On the other hand, the contrast in the reaction ...

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Review of Essay “Cell Block, Egospheres, Self-Container”
It is extremely common for most single people to live in studio apartments or a similar structure. Most people, however, would not know the various aspects behind the evolution and the view behind these particular living spaces. This paper will review certain concepts put forth by Peter Sloterdijk in his article beginning with the concept of egosphere, then proceeding on to the concept of ‘the cell’ and then to the idea of self-pairing. The paper will, further, also review the relation between the concept of ‘the cell’ and then to the idea ...

Philosophy Journal

“Burnt Norton” by T.S. Eliot
This poem is told through a narrator speaking directly to an audience. He warns of living in the present and not to suffer the past or worry about the future, “If all time is eternally” present. To worry about what one has already done in the past, “Down the passage which we did not takeTowards the door we never opened will not help to live well in the present.” (Eliot) To spend one’s time think and planning for the future is also a waste, “Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after”. ( ...

Part I

C. Discuss Cherlin’s argument for why Americans have both high rates of marriage and high rates of divorce compared to other industrialized nations.
Andrew Cherlin reviewed the historical changes while noting that marriage still remained the most common and effective living arrangement for bringing up of children. However, children are more likely to grow up in single-parent families, and to experience instability of families especially minority and poor children. His view why the US has high marriage and divorce rates, which is called family metabolism, is attributed to cultural and economic forces that have continually transformed family ...

The novels: “Things Fall Apart,” “The Street: A Novel,” and “Christ in Concrete” shows the poor treatment of women in the society. The characters are true as the social issues in the novels are similar to the social issues that exist in the modern world. Achebe shows that men are cruel to women in many ways as Okonkwo treats his wives poorly. Donato shows that men makes crude jokes about the women in their lives, and Petry shows the lecherous Jones’ advance on Lutie. In essence, women show their strength against the harsh realities that they face in different ...

Violence of colors in “The Raven” and “Lenore”

In the poems “The Raven”, “Lenore” Poe inquires the loss of ideal beauty and the difficulty in getting it back. These two poems are narrated by a young man crying over the untimely death of his beloved.
In “The Raven,” Poe successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideals. In this piece, a young scholar who is emotionally exhausted of the phrase “Nevermore” repeated by a raven in answer to his question about the probability of an afterlife with his deceased lover.
“Lenore” shows different ways in which the dead are best remembered, either by mourning or celebrating life beyond earthly ...

Literature review: Poem “The Final Hour” by Yevgeniy Yevtushenko

The first thought after reading the poem is a doubt. Will there really be an end and liberation? Is there really anything out there greater than every day routine, and is there really anything beyond just striving to survive in everyday world? The struggle for resources that are becoming more and more scarce and the rat-race everyone has to participate in trying to catch up to today’s world pace is voiding a human of anything for the soul. In fact to the point that the human is not a soul, but a mere number, an account, an employee, a customer, and as a poet ...

Introduction

Euthanasia is the act of providing assisted, voluntary or involuntary death to a patient, mostly terminally ill patients (ANA, 2013). Euthanasia can be administered by the physicians and nurses on request of either the patient, the relatives of a patient who is not in a position to make a request or by the physicians and the nurses depending on the condition of the patient. Euthanasia is an issue that has raised questions not only in the health care system but also in the legal system (ANA, 2013). It is surrounded by moral, social, cultural and religious challenges and finding a common ground to accommodate ...

Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley was first published in 1818 . It was updated and published again in 1831. It is the story of a genius who tried to create life and suffered as he had brought to life evil in the world.
It is a typical gothic novel that gained popularity during the 1800s. The period was referred to as the age of enlightenment or the age of reason. It was the time when many great philosophers arose. The period came after the Renaissance and the Reformation. There was greater freedom for philosophers to write about anything ...

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In “Letter III, What Is an American” Crevecoeur applies a theory of character, a theory of how and why people come to behave as they do. Summarize what you think that theory is, and take examples from his letter to make your summary specific.
Crevecoeur take an interesting and brave perspective of defining what an American is based on his Letter III. Primarily, it is a thought-provoking statement how he describe the American as “either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you could not find ...

American Literature: The American Frontier

The frontier seems attract men and retain them that they never leave and may rather die here than moving out. Some is associated with family ties. The jinx of the family, which is not new to American drama, is well embodied in True West. Each individual is born into a household and as such bears the burdens of the generations previous him or her. Though Austin has strained very hard to escape the hold of his family, all of his efforts have failed. He has strained to get a sense of individuality from his labor and his activities, but in the ...

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Music plays an unchallenging positive role on the mental patents. Not only the advance researches have proved its importance, but also the evidence of music treatment were found in the ancient times histories. Music is the part of every tradition for many years and nobody can deny its importance.
Today, the role of music repetition has proved a way of treatment for the mental patients for the therapy and disorder purposes. The researches of the neurophysiological have described the demonstrational impacts of music not only the patients but also useful for the basic emotional system of the ...

Exploring he theme of Isolation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories; “The Minister’s Black Veil”, “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Birthmark”
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of many short stories in which he portrays his characters with some dilemma where they must make up their minds about what is wrong from what is right. His stories end with morals that can be learned through his characters’ actions. Most of the stories he wrote are filled with themes of guilt and there are many themes of loneliness and sadness. His main characters are reclusive and lived sheltered lives. ...

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World

In her recently published memoire, My Beloved World, 1 Justice Sonia Sotomayor narrates her personal story, from her childhood growing up in a Bronx housing project up to the time she first becomes a judge. Focusing on the events and persons that made her the person she is today, she recounts how she becomes a successful lawyer and judge, overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, such as chronic juvenile diabetes and limited English language skills. She weaves an engaging story where many of her relatives and friends such as her paternal grandmother (Abuelita) and her Yale mentor José Cabranes come to life as ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, whose works are popular with the readers all over the globe. The timeless themes of Poe’s stories and the struggles of his characters are indeed remain relevant nowadays. His cocktail of death, love and suffer is of an undying combination. His short stories and poems are sodden with darkness, agony, mystery and obsession of inevitable death, they thrill and excite. The Pit And The Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall Of The House of Usher are only a few of his ...

This story is about a young woman who is unhappy in her marriage. She is a good wife, but she lives like her husband’s possession. Louise accepts these circumstances because she can’t change them, but deep inside she hopes that her life won’t be long. “Only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long” (Chopin 4). The title of the story is The Story of an Hour because Louise’s life changes only for an hour, during which she feels intense joy of freedom.
The irony in the story is Louise’s death and ...

The story happens in the home of Louise Mallard in the late nineteenth century; however, the author, Chopin, does not state the precise location. The main character is Louise Mallard while minor characters include Brently Mallard (her husband), Josephine (her sister) and Richards (a friend to her husband). The story is entirely about Louise and presents a negative view about marriage since the news of the husband’s death undoubtfully overjoys the woman. The question here is why the woman is all happy over her husband’s death. Most likely her feeling is psychological since she feels she has received freedom ...

Literature review

Essentially information is always intended to reach a large audience presented by the assorted mass media platforms such as print media, broadcast media and outdoor media. This enables us to identify with the notion that there are both negative and positive impacts of the mass media to our lives. In particular, this particular paper will focus on how mass media has affected teen girls in our modern day society (Gullotta, et.al, 2005). Mass media has since developed in the contemporary times making its impacts more apparent that never before. Arguably, though mass media affects all of us in the same ...

Introduction

People are indeed not created equal. They all have different faces, personalities, abilities, beliefs, principles, and cultures among others. With that being said, Henry David Thoreau’s literary piece The Battle of the Ants, found at the twelfth chapter of Walden, is a great example of this actuality. The story tells of how a simple story of war or battle between two species of ants, which are different in size and color, can serve as a reflection of the main implication of humanitarian conflicts in today’s reality. Thoreau used black and red ants as an allegory to depict the inequality between ...